( 405 ) 

 334. Epistoriocypete. 



(J. Sphinx orypete Linni', Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 4',)8. u. 4 (IToH) ; id., Mus. Litd. Ulr. p. 344 (1764) ; 



id., Si/xl. Xat. ed. xii. p. 7118. n. 4 (17t;7) ; Gmel., Sjist. Nut. i. 5. p. 2373. n. 1 (17ilO). 

 ? . Sjihiii.c ciiiaertax Cramer, Pap. E.e. iii. p. 53. t. 225. f. A (1779) (Surinam) ; Goeze, Eiit. Beytr. 



iii. 2. p. 227. n. 9 (1780) ; StoU, in Cram., I.e. Suppl. t. 25. f. 1. la (1790) (larva, pupa). 

 cJ. Sjihinx (laimm Cramer, Pap. E.r. iii. p. 53. t. 225. f. B (1782) (Surinam) , Goeze, /.,•. n. 10 (1880). 

 E,ii/ii riimerliix, Hiibner, Verz. hek. Schm. p. 132. n. 1420 (1822) ; Walk., List Lep. his. B. M. viii. 

 p. 114. n. 2 (1850) (Brazil ; Para ; Mexico ; S. Domingo) ; Clem., Joiini. Ac. N^. He. Philad. 

 iv. p. 140. n. 20 (1859) ; Clem., in Morris, Syu. Lep. N. Am. p. 102. n. 2 (1802) ; Herr.-Sch., 

 Corresp. Bl. p. 57 (1865) (= lugubris ?) ; Grote, Pnjc. Eiit. So,: Philad. v. p. 44 (1865) (Cuba, 

 distinct) ; id. & Rob., ibid. p. 152. n. 18 (1865) ; Grote, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 184 

 (1871) (Cuba) ; Butl., Trans. Zool. Soc. Land. ix. p. 541. n. 2 (1877) (Oaxaca ; var. of 

 hiyubris?); id., Pror. Zool. Soc. Loml. p. 483. n. 50 (1878) (Jamaica); Gundl., Coidr. Ent. 

 Cubana p. 180 (1882) (distinct from lugubris) ; M6schl., Ycrh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien xxxii. 

 p. 3.33 (1882) (Surinam ; = r/((»Hm ) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. H,t. i. p. 044. n. 2 (1892) ; B;mningh., 

 Iris xii. p. 131. n. 60 (1899) (Rio de Jan. ; larva on Vitis). 

 Enyo danum, Hubner, Vcrz. bek. Schm. p. 132. n. 1421 (1822) ; Walker, I.e. viii. p. 118. n. 12 (185(;); 

 Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. v. p. 45 (1865) (Cuba) ; id. & Rob., ibid. p. 152 n. 19 (1865) ; 

 Grote, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. iii. p. 184 (1871) (Cuba) ; Butl., Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. ix. 

 p. 541. n. 3 (1877) (Peru ; Bolivia; Haiti ; ozypcle?) ; Gundl,, I.e. p. 182 (1882). 

 Pterogon eamertus, Burmeister, Spliing. Bras. p. 72 (1856). 

 (J. Emjo lugubris, Walker, I.e. viii. p. 113. n. 1. var. y (1850). 

 Tliyreus danum, Boisduval, Cons. Lep. Guatemala p. 07 (1870). 

 ?. Euijo hiijubris, Wallengren, Oe/e. Vet. Ak. Handl. p. 9l:i (1871) ; Smith, Trans. Amer. Eut. Soc. 



XV. p. 123 (1888) (partim). 

 E/nstnr eamertus, Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lep. Ilet. i. p. 298. n. 3 (1875) (Guiana ; Colombia ; Antilles). 

 Episi„r danum, id., I.e. p. 299. n. 5 (1875) (Guiana ; Colombia ; Cuba ; Haiti). 

 Sphinx ozypete (!), Butler, I.e. p. 541. sub n. 3 (1877). 



(j. Enyo ocypete, Aurivillius, Kongl. Sr. Vet. A!,: Handl. xix. 5. p. 128. n. 102 (1882) ; Kirby, I.e. 

 n. 3 (1892). 



<S ? . Many individuals are nmber-brown. The brush of scales at the tip of the 

 antenna very prominent, the scales very slender in the S. 



(S . Abdominal area of hindwing above with a sliarply defined yellowish wliite 

 patch. Tentii abdominal segment as in lugubris, but the apical pi'ocess of the 

 tergite not quite so long and a little curved downward, and the ventral processes 

 also sliorter ; sternite twisted at end as in lugubris. (Uasper (PI. XLVII. f. 19) 

 without apical process, almost regularly acuminate in apical tiiird ; harpe free at 

 end, more or less truncate. Penis-sheath (PI. LIII. f. 33) ending in a long 

 jiointed process, which is much broader than in lugubris. 



?. Similar to the ? of lugubris, but easily distinguished by the second 

 abdominal tergite bearing a brown belt, by the brown discal area of the forewing 

 extending along the antemedian line to hinder margin, by the sharply marked 

 vinaceons-clfiy-coloured distal marginal halfmoon, and the smaller stigniii. 



Larva and pui)a figured by Stoll, I.e. 



Hab. Mexico to Paraguay and Southern Brazil ; ( -uba, Haiti, Jamaica. 



In the Tring Museum 65 S S , 25 ? ? from : Jamaica ; Cuba; various places 

 from Me.\-ico southward to Bolivia, Matto Grosso and Sao Paulo. 



We have only one Jamaica specimen, a ? ; tliis has a rather broader forewing 

 than ordinary Continental individuals. 



335. Epistor gorgon. 



?. Sphinx gorgon Cramer, Pap. Ex. ii. p. 73. t. 142. f. K (1777) (Surinam). 

 (J. Sphinx lyetus id., I.e. iii. p. 56. t. 225. f. F (1779) (Surinam). 

 Sella gorgon, Oken, Lehrb. Naturij. iii. 1. p. 750. sub n. 4 (1815). 



